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..We suggest that adrenergic activity may increase hematocrit and viscosity and hence reduce insulin sensitivity...

..It has been suggested that the LIFE study results may be related to the effects of losartan on serum uric acid (SUA). SUA has been proposed as an independent risk factor for CV morbidity and death...

..Renal artery stenosis may present as acute pulmonary oedema and be misinterpreted as congestive heart failure. ACE inhibitors and angiotensin-II antagonists are widely used among patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension...

..Subjects who are insulin sensitive and have low blood pressure and resting epinephrine levels seem to be less prone to hyperglycemia induced by epinephrine...

..The moderate increases in FBF during insulin infusion with serum concentrations within the physiological range seem to be time-dependent and not caused by hyperinsulinemia...

..Our results suggest that acute hyperinsulinemia during isoglycemic glucose clamp does not interfere with cardiovascular or sympathetic responses to mental stress...

..It may be speculated whether insulin counteracts unfavourable effects of mental stress and sympathetic activation on glucose metabolism...

..008), and increase in HR (by 23 +/- 2 v 15 +/- 2 beats per minute, P = .008) as compared with 15 subjects with unchanged/increased glucose concentration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)..

..5 mg/kg/min, P = 0.039). Thus our data suggest that angiotensin II-receptor blockade with losartan improves glucose metabolism at the cellular level beyond what can be expected by the vasodilatation and blood pressure reduction alone...

..These results suggest hemorheologic, and therefore indirectly hemodynamic factors as correlates to insulin sensitivity...

..To evaluate the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on lipids and lipoproteins in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease...

..CONCLUSION: Plasma leptin is related to other cardiovascular risk factors in postmenopausal women with CAD, but seems to be unaffected by transdermal 17beta-estradiol administration...

..Our results suggest that gender is an important determinant of BRS and HRV. Autonomic function parameters were especially impaired in hypertensive women compared with hypertensive men...

..Similar gender differences were observed during specific questioning. Furthermore, nonsmokers reported an increase in cough more often than did smokers...

..019); there was a trend toward more patients achieving target diastolic BP (<90 mm Hg, P = .053). No clinically important differences in safety and tolerability were observed...

..41, P less than .05). Since low renin hypertension is associated with less cardiovascular complications, this may offer an explanation for the better prognosis of hypertension in women...

..Thus, hypophosphatemia in patients with mild essential hypertension appears to be inversely related to sympathetic adrenal tone and may be caused by increased plasma epinephrine within pathophysiologic arterial concentrations...

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..In conclusion, treatment with transdermal estradiol combined with long-cycle progestins was associated with no net activation of coagulation despite reduced levels of coagulation inhibitors...

..e. a fall in systolic blood pressure <10% during the night compared with the day), than with casual BP. The aim of the study was to assess the ABP pattern in an HIV-infected cohort in which hypertension was newly diagnosed...

..That combination can become life-threatening under certain circumstances...

..To investigate possible associations between smoking habits and other coronary risk factors in postmenopausal women with known coronary heart disease (CHD)...

..A method for reliably detecting the onset of LV dysfunction before transition to irreversible damage of the myocardium would be of crucial importance in subjects with essential hypertension...

..A recent review of the literature has resulted in new recommendations in Europe and the USA. We suggest new guidelines for Norway with regard to the use of metformin in patients undergoing radiological examination with contrast media...

..The purpose of the present investigation was to look at a possible relationship between circulating active TGF-beta1 and adhesion molecules in postmenopausal women with angiographically verified coronary heart disease (CHD) (n=118)...

..The women had angiographically documented coronary heart disease (CHD) and were randomized to either sequential transdermal 17beta-oestradiol for 14 weeks and then medroxyprogesterone (MPA) for 14 days (HRT) or to a control group (C)...

..Epidemiological studies show that many of the risk factors are the same as in non-diabetic subjects. At present there are sufficient data in the literature to recommend prophylactic measures to be initiated in diabetic patients...

..The ongoing immunosuppression may have modified the mesangial cell response to the deposition of immune complexes...

..In conclusion, the threshold level of ACR > or = 3.0 mg/mmol currently used to define microalbuminuria may be not applicable to EH. Instead, a threshold level of ACR > or = 1. 5 mg/mmol may be more appropriate...

..Liver enzymes increased slightly during lovastatin therapy, while no case of myopathy was reported. Combined therapy with lovastatin and antihypertensive therapy can be safely undertaken...

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..Acute kidney injury (AKI) with renal replacement therapy (RRT) is rare in trauma patients. The primary aim of the study was to assess incidence, mortality and chronic RRT dependency in this patient group...